BMW 335i sedan on polished wet skidpad, BMW Performance Center, 20 May 2007 by badbadM.

Do you over-drive your mirrors?

My brother recently sent this clip of a C6 Corvette driver at Mid-Ohio. As far as we can tell, the guy is happily cranking away at his big American monster car, and his G2X (similar to a Traqmate) tells us he's turning laps in the 1:50 range. How hard is he pushing? He loses it and spins a few turns into the next lap. As the car settles, we hear a puttering sound and a MINI Cooper motors past the now-helpless American wundercar. Over on Corvette Forums, the guy claims to have "missed the gas pedal" while attempting a downshift, and claims he had just passed the MINI (although we never saw that). Is the Corvette pedal arrangement really that bad? Where's the finesse, people? Was this guy just driving his mirrors in fear of the MINI? You decide...

Even MORE Rally Madness!

OK, so perhaps this "awesome rally vidclip" thing has started something. Today's clip was sent in by a good friend of the Axis, we'll call him "Steve The Hurricane" (not related to The Stee). This Steve, like our own Adil, is a trained expert in the art of rally driving, having attended rally school in Ireland, among other venues. Ride with him in an autocross and you'll be impressed, but turn him loose (pun intended) on snow or dirt and he'll simply amaze you. Rumor has it that Steve is close to inking a deal for an xDrive sponsorship.

So let's get to the clip. Steve enjoyed our banter about Redefining Early Turn-in last week, so here is his contribution, but you must watch to the end to see the earliest of turn-ins. The clip is originally from www.gigigalli.com. So enjoy. And, if the embedded teaser clip isn't enough, you can get a whole 2:40min "best of" clip of Gigi's work here.